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1. The number of handmade figurines sold by Miranda over the last four weeks (including this week) has halved each week. If she has sold a total of 75 by the end of this week, how many did she sell last week? 2. What connects frost, rabbit and tar? 3. Which Queen’s Birthday Honours recipient may NETTLE FOLK? 4. Which is the odd one out: Toots, Gnasher, Smiffy, Plug? 5. Rearrange the letter groups to make three female English runners: MIT CLI GHT RAD AGE WEI FFE HER MAN.

1 Ten figurines. 2 They may all follow jack. 3 Ken Follett. 4 Gnasher; the others were in the Bash Street Kids. 5 Radcliffe, Weightman, Hermitage.